Grove's dictionary of music and musicians

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270 SCHNELLER SCHOBEET
the second book.
The Professor stood by his
side unmoved, but the composer of 'Elijah'
disappeared into a remote gallery, to hide his
emotion.
Schneider's few published works include an
'answer of thanks' to the 'Jubel Album,' a
masterly Fantasia and Fugue in D minor (op. 3),
etc. B. M. o.
SCHNELLER. The German name for the
short trill or inverted mordent
Written.
Played.
SCHNETZLER, Johann. See Snetzlbk,
John.
SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD, Ludwig,
bom July 2, 1836, at Munich, the son of the
painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, first received
instruction in music from Julius Otto
at Dresden, where, in 1846, his father became
director of the Kunst Akademie. Inl854he was
for a short time at the Leipzig Conservatorium,
and later in the year studied for the stage under
Eduard Devrient at Carlsruhe, where he became
engaged. He made his debut in the modest
part of Napthali in M^hul's Joseph,' and '
later
made a great success as Robert (Meyerbeer).
About this period he married the singer, Malwina
Garrigues (born Deo. 7, 1825). On leave of
absence, he sang in opera at Wiesbaden and
Frankfort, and at festivals at Mainz and Diisseldorf.
From 1860 to 1865 he was engaged at
Dresden, where he increased his popularity. In
1862 Wagner heard him when singing at Carlsruhe
as Lohengrin, and was so struck with his
performance that he determined to confide to
him the part of Tristan whenever the opera
was produced. Schnorr had been warmly recommended
to the composer earlier, both by
Tichatschek the singer, and Devrient, but for a
time Wagner was not prepossessed in Schnorr's
favour, on account of his unromantic figure, in
spite of his talent and his enthusiasm for Wagner
and his music. (Vide 'Meine Erinnerungen
an L. S. V. C.,' Neue Zeitschrift fiir Musik, Nos.
24 and 25, 1868.) On June 10, 1865, Schnorr
and his wife created the parts of Tristan and
Isolde, when the opera was produced at Munich,
at the express instance of the composer. Their
leave of absence being limited, they returned to
Dresden, July 15, and the tenor died six days
after, of a chUl and rheumatism, caught at the
first performance of the opera. He was a clever,
all-round musician, an excellent pianist and
extempore player, a composer, and arranger of
songs of Bach, Gluck, and the old Italian school.
He was also a painter and a writer of poetry. In
1867 his widow published a volume of poems
by herself and her husband. After his death
she was engaged at Hamburg, and finally at
Carlsruhe, where, on her retirement, she became
a teacher of singing.
She died at the Vincentius
Hospital there on Feb. 8, 1904. A. c.
SCHOBERLECHNER, Franz, born at
Vienna, July 21, 1797. Hummel composed
for him his second pianoforte Concerto, in C,
which he performed in public with success when
only ten years old. The precocious child was
taken under the patronage of Prince Esterhazy,
and sent to Vienna, to study under Forster.
From 1814 he travelled in Austria and Italy.
While at Florence he composed a requiem, and
'
a huffa opera, I Virtuosi teatrali.' In the
next year, having been appointed chapel-master
to the Duchess of Lucca, he wrote Gli Arabi
'
nelle Gallie,' and subsequently, at Vienna, in
1820, 'Der junge Onkel.' In 1823 he went
to Russia. He seems to have written to Beethoven,
before starting, for letters of introduction,
which the composer refiised.' At St.
Petersburg he recommended himself to dall'
Occa, a professor of singing, whose daughter he
married in 1824. After travelling in Germany
and Italy, the pair returned to St. Petersburg
in 1827, where Mme. Schoberlechner was engaged
for three years at the Italian Opera at a
salary of 20,000 roubles. Her husband comfiosed
for her an opera, ' II Barone di Dolzheim,'
which had some success. In 1831 Schoberlechner
retired to a country house near Florence.
His last opera was 'Rossane,' produced at
MOan, Feb. 9, 1839. He died at Berlin on
Jan. 7, 1843.
His published works are chiefly for the pianoforte
; a list of them is to be found in F^tis's
Biog. d. Mus. His wife,
Madame Sophie Schoberlechner, daughter
of Signdr dall' Occa, was born at St. Petersburg
in 1807. Up to 1827 she appeared only in
concerts, but was then enga,ged at the Italian
Opera of St. Petersburg, as we have also already
mentioned. She had a veiy beautiful voice,
and for twelve or thirteen years sang with
unvarying success in almost all the principal
towns of Germany and Italy. In 1840 she
left the stage, retired to her husband's property
in Tuscany, and died at Florence in 1863. f.a.m.
SCHOBERT, or CHOBERT in Mozart's orthography,
^ a player on the harpsichord, whose
sonatas were the delight of our great- grandmothers.
His Christian name does not appear,
and little is known of his biography. He is said
to have been born in 1720, and brought up at
Strasburg. He was at one time organist at Versailles,
but was dismissed for negligence. He
settled in Paris in 1760, in which year his first
works were published there, where he was in the
service of the Prince de Conti. On the occasion
of his death, August 1767, Grimm, no mean
judge of music, inserts in his Correspondence a
very high eulogium on his merits as a player.
He praises him for 'his great ability, his
^ See Note to Beethoven's Letters, traiulated by Lady Wallace
vol. ii. p. 118.
' See Letter, Oct. 17, Vm.